SOA for Canadian Higher Education

here is the link to the outputs of the SOA workshop in
Vancouver last month.  Go to

http://educationcommons.org/projects/display/SOA/Home

Click on the Workshop March 2006 link to see all the workshop material.    Look for the
16 (or so) "service candidates" we identified as emerging out of the
high-level business process of "apply for admission".  We demonstrated the
power of service oriented analysis and the existence of abundant reusable
services at or close to the infrastructure level (though Thomas Erl calls
these "application services").  The MIT/OKI [Open Knowledge Initiative] crowd and UK representative [University of Hull - e-Services Integration] were particularly helpful in working this through.

We are starting to piece together some of the next steps and have identified
the following "tracks" going forward:

Entity definition
Business process discovery
Application service candidate discovery
Experimental implementation exercises (Proof of Concept)
Data representation architecture and schema definition
Higher education "basic profile" definition
Security and privacy requirements definition
Technology alternatives selection -- should be deferred to Service-Oriented
Analysis stage

By the time we reach CANHEIT, we should have a penultimate version of the
report (feasibility study) funded by the Mellon Foundation.  Be sure to
attend the presentation by Richard Spencer and Leo Fernig [A Community Source Student Services System].

Ted Dodds
Associate Vice President, Information Technology & CIO
The University of British Columbia

http://www.e-strategy.ubc.ca/

via Bill St. Arnaud - CAnet News - SOA in Higher Education

Previously:
January 05, 2005  Hull.ac.uk portal built using SOA